The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-04
4 CHAT WITH THE SINGER
Her DiSappOintment-0ld Names
and Faces Her Common 70
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"HonestLittle Emma" not so little
however, as her name mightimply was
found by reporter after she had falIen
dead GA the prostrate7body of her SON in
Lucrezia-just rising from her posture
and gathering up her velvet skirts pre-
paratory to resigning herself to the
hands of her French maid. Emma has
remarkable memory for the faces of
the press people, and the reporter was
at once warmly recognized and shown
to her room.
Did yUru ever know anything so ex-
asperating as that railroad accident"
she said with all her old time yoluble
dash. I've done nothing but cry
all night over the disappoin :
ment. What sort of a railroad
must it be where they try FIVE engines
before they can get one to pull a train
Yes, five. The first one we had there
was something the matter of the piston
rod; then We went on with another and
something else broke then we got a
third, and the valve or throttle or some
thing got out of order; fourth was
found to be licketty, and not until a
fifth engine had got to US, could we
make the trip. When the conductor
told me the smash had come, [ just
said, 'Oh Salt Lake and sat down
and had a good cry. After so many
accidents as we had, l fully made up
my mind that we would run off the
track and roll down hill, so | set to
work to tie all my vatuables about me,
took the measure of the car window,
ascertained that my hips and should
ers would go through on a piach aud
sat down and waited for it. [ didn't
want any holocaust IN mine. Crema-
ton, I believe in; [ intend to be Gre
mated, but not till I'm thoroughly
dead ~.
1--WE have had, oh, such a lovely time
up in the new country : Portland,
Butte, etc. We played two weeks in
Portland. and such a muSic-loVing
you never saw. We gave
seven performances in Butte to beauti-
full business. Ny old people? Well,
Mr.. Castle is no longer young, you
know, and he has settled down in New
York, speculating in stocks. Fabrini is
with Carl Rosa in London, and is max
ing lots OF money. MISREPRESENTATION
old Tag; what magnetic worker he
was on the stage. but what lot of lazy
bones he was offs in South America
his wife, Carreno, the famous
pianist. Campobel!o has been with
Duff, butts now back III San Francisco
again teaching. Both Campo and Tag
want to come back to me; perhaps l
shall have them next season. 'raA u.s.
Yes, this is the first season of my
Lucrezia and the Carnival. | spent last
summer in Paris and London studying
up all the old traditions and histories of
Lucrezia, and my ideas, as well as my
dresses, | got of the best masters.
Marchisi tells me my voice was never
better, and l myself think it was never
stronger. 1t ascends all the time
strange to say. L can touch notes now
that five years ago couldn', dream of.
With Patti. it is the opposite, her voice
is going down; the great duo in Traviati
she now has transposed whole tone,
and some other of her high music the
same way. In s.t.l
The entrance of Cbinaman
for orders about laundry, of an
attendant to inquire what time she
would have superior she remains in
her dressing room resting in big arm
chair between matinee and night per-
formances-and sundry signs that her
French maj was about to begin opera
tions-aJ length terminated the chatty
audience and drove the reporter from
the scene.